Adult Programs

Celebrate Summer's upcoming arrival with some outdoor reading! 

Grab your book, a blanket, pack your favorite snacks, and gather your people, it’s time for a River-side Read-In. Join us along the beautiful Sturgeon River for a relaxed, community reading experience where stories and nature come together. Bring your friends, your family, or just yourself, and settle in for an evening of relaxation and reading whatever you like. 

Let’s turn the riverbank into a living library!

Meet outside the back doors of St. Albert Place (5 St. Anne Street) along the Sturgeon River. 

*Weather dependent - please check the library website to stay up to date on cancellation due to weather. 

June selection: Bones of a Giant by Brian Thomas Isaac

Summer, 1968. For the first time since his big brother, Eddie, disappeared two years earlier -- either a runaway or dead by his own hand -- sixteen-year-old Lewis Toma has shaken off some of his grief. His mother, Grace, and her friend Isabel have gone south to the United States to pack fruit to earn the cash Grace needs to put a bathroom and running water into the three-room shack they share on the reserve, leaving Lewis to spend the summer with his cousins, his Uncle Ned and his Aunt Jean in the new house they've built on their farm along the Salmon River. Their warm family life is almost enough to counter the pressures he feels as a boy trying to become a man in a place where responsible adult men like his uncle are largely absent, broken by residential school and racism. Everywhere he looks, women are left to carry the load, sometimes with kindness, but often with the bitterness, anger and ferocity of his own mother, who kicked Lewis's lowlife father, Jimmy, to the curb long ago. Lewis has vowed never to be like his father -- but an encounter with a predatory older woman tests him and he suffers the consequences. Worse, his dad is back in town and scheming on how to use the Indian Act to steal the land Lewis and his mom have been living on. And then, at summer's end, more shocking revelations shake the family, unleashing a deadly force of anger and frustration. With so many traps laid around him, how will Lewis find a path to a different future?

The Tuesday Afternoon Club meets on the third Tuesday of the month in the Training Room on the 2nd floor of the Downtown Library. Register to reserve your spot in the meeting.

Book club kit copies are available for participants about a month before the book club meets. Visit the Adult Information Desk on the 2nd floor to get your copy. These are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.